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Multielectron ground state electroluminescence

Multielectron ground state electroluminescence
Multielectron ground state electroluminescence

The ground state of a cavity-electron system in the ultrastrong coupling regime is characterized by the presence of virtual photons. If an electric current flows through this system, the modulation of the light-matter coupling induced by this nonequilibrium effect can induce an extracavity photon emission signal, even when electrons entering the cavity do not have enough energy to populate the excited states. We show that this ground state electroluminescence, previously identified in a single-qubit system [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 113601 (2016)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.116.113601] can arise in a many-electron system. The collective enhancement of the light-matter coupling makes this effect, described beyond the rotating wave approximation, robust in the thermodynamic limit, allowing its observation in a broad range of physical systems, from a semiconductor heterostructure with flatband dispersion to various implementations of the Dicke model.

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Cirio, Mauro
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Shammah, Nathan
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Lambert, Neill
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Nori, Franco
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Cirio, Mauro
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Nori, Franco
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Cirio, Mauro, Shammah, Nathan, Lambert, Neill, De Liberato, Simone and Nori, Franco (2019) Multielectron ground state electroluminescence. Physical Review Letters, 122 (19), [190403]. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.190403).

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Abstract

The ground state of a cavity-electron system in the ultrastrong coupling regime is characterized by the presence of virtual photons. If an electric current flows through this system, the modulation of the light-matter coupling induced by this nonequilibrium effect can induce an extracavity photon emission signal, even when electrons entering the cavity do not have enough energy to populate the excited states. We show that this ground state electroluminescence, previously identified in a single-qubit system [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 113601 (2016)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.116.113601] can arise in a many-electron system. The collective enhancement of the light-matter coupling makes this effect, described beyond the rotating wave approximation, robust in the thermodynamic limit, allowing its observation in a broad range of physical systems, from a semiconductor heterostructure with flatband dispersion to various implementations of the Dicke model.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 15 May 2019
Published date: 17 May 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 431668
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/431668
ISSN: 0031-9007
PURE UUID: 35f669d3-81bf-489f-8dd6-33f865d3c8d3
ORCID for Simone De Liberato: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4851-2633

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Date deposited: 12 Jun 2019 16:30
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 01:51

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Author: Mauro Cirio
Author: Nathan Shammah
Author: Neill Lambert
Author: Franco Nori

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